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'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times
'A page-turner' The Spectator
'Sweeping and engaging history ... a non-triumphalist history of the triumph of Christianity, and all the more powerful for it' Financial Times
A major new reinterpretation of Christendom, by one of our foremost medieval historians
In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and converting the Emperor Constantine in the process, it resoundingly defeated a host of other rivals. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within culture and society, exercised a monolithic hold over its population. But, as Peter Heather shows in this compelling new history, there was nothing inevitable about Christendom's rise to Europe-wide dominance.
In exploring how the Christian religion became such a defining feature of the European landscape, and how a small sect of isolated and intensely committed congregations was transformed into a mass movement centrally directed from Rome, Peter Heather shows how Christendom constantly battled against both so-called 'heresies' and other forms of belief. From the crisis that followed the collapse of the Roman empire, which left the religion teetering on the edge of extinction, to the astonishing revolution of the eleventh century and beyond in which the Papacy emerged as the head of a vast international corporation, Heather traces Christendom's chameleon-like capacity for self-reinvention and astounding willingness to mobilize well-directed force.
Christendom's achievement was not, or not only, to define official Christianity, but - from its scholars and its lawyers, to its provincial officials and missionaries in far-flung corners of the continent - to transform it into an institution that wielded effective religious authority across nearly all of the disparate peoples of medieval Europe. This is its extraordinary story.
Author
Peter Heather
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
October 2022
Weight
1248g
Page Count
736
Dimensions
241 x 169 x 52 mm
ISBN
9780241215913
ISBN-10
0241215919
Eden Code
5171725
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Author/Creator: Peter Heather
ISBN: 9780241215913
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Release Date: October 2022
Weight: 1248g
Dimensions: 241 x 169 x 52 mm
Eden Code: 5171725